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(No Model.)

G. LAUBE. REIN HOLDER.

No. 576,681. Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

GODFRIED LAURE, OF HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO A. VANDENBURG, OF SAME PLACE.

REIN-HOLDER'.

SPECIFICATION forming' part 0f Letters Patent NO. 576,681, dated February 9, 1897. Application filed September 9, 1896. Serial No. 605,246. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.- itself to form a loop 3, then bent in alinement Be it known that I, GODFRIED LAUBE, a citiagain to form the loop 4L, then downward, passzen of the United States of America, residing through the eye 5, formed on the lower ing at I-Iuron, in the county of Beadle and bar, then curved outward and inward and 45 5' State of South Dakota, have invented certain doubled on itself to form the tongue 6, and

new and useful Improvements in Rein-Holdending in an eye above the eye 5. ers, of which the following is a specification, The torsion incident to the lifting of the reference being had therein to the acoompatongue is brought on the oute'r portion 7, and nying drawings. the eyes 5 5a permit it to turn and form a 5o ro This invention relates to rein-holders, and' hinge connection, the strain being distribcontemplates improvements in such holders uted over the tongue and the outer portion 7. formed of Wire,- the object being to produce a The loops 3 and 4 are bent to form hooks, holder which will effect a rm engagement which have sufficient resiliency to permit with the dashboard, be adjustable to dashtheir disengagement, yet having sufficient re- 55 15 boards of Varying thickness, and which will sistance to retain the holder in place.

clasp the reins and hold them securely. The operation and advantages will, it is Furthermore, the invention aims to form thought, be apparent from the foregoing dethe rein-clamping member in such a manner scription. as toproduce practically a hinge action and Having fully described my invention, what 6o zo will make the clamp more easily operated. I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters A further object of the invention is the pro- Patent, is vision of such a clamp which will possess ad- A rein-holder formed of a single piece of vantages in points of simplicity, durability, Wire bent to produce a ,straight bar with an dac. eye on the end, then bent at right anglesl to 65 z 5. With the above and other objects in View the bar and doubled on itself to form a loop, the invention consists in the novel details of next bent parallel with the first bar and at construction to be hereinafter more fully set right angles to form a second loop parallel forth, and specifically pointed out in the anwith the rst,then downward,passingthrough neXed claim. the eye formed on the bar, then curved out- 7o 3o In describing the invention in detail referward and inward and doubled on itself to ence is had to the accompanying drawings, form a tongue and ending in a coil above the forming part of this specification, wherein eye, said loops being bent to form hooks to like numerals of reference denote correspondengage the dashboard of a vehicle, substaning parts in both views, in which` tially as shown and described. 75

; 5 Figure l is aview in perspective of the im- In testimony whereof I ax my signature proved clamp and holder. Fig. 2 is a front in presence of two witnesses. View in elevation, showing the same applied to a dashboar GODFRIED LAUBE.

In the drawings, l denotes the holder, litnessesz ro formed of a single piece of steel wire, having ANNIE T. LAUBE,

the lower bar 2 bent upward and doubled on HATTIE ROSE LAUBE. 

